This is an open and unfiltered diary-style journal
on the life of James Robert Smith.
This blog will contain sometimes graphic experiences (both beautiful and ugly),
sometimes stark insight, and all honest and factual documentation of dreams, diet, activity, and thoughts.

Researching the history of piano and keyboard instruments. Writing more Christmas cards – it seems like there’s always more and more.

Mozart’s Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major, K.331 really speaks to me tonight, especially the first movement. I sit down and learn it. Often, music comes and goes on a daily basis, some to my liking and some not, but every now and then a melody or progression really sticks with me and changes my perspective, and surpasses the mundane and daily activity. This song is it.